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1) World Order
Author
Language
English
Description
“Dazzling and instructive . . . [a] magisterial new book.” —Walter Isaacson, Time
"An astute analysis that illuminates many of today's critical international issues." —Kirkus Reviews
Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen...
"An astute analysis that illuminates many of today's critical international issues." —Kirkus Reviews
Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"This book explains when and why state leaders form different types of security relationships such as ambiguous alliance agreements. These differences are important because commitments, such as formal military alliances and extended deterrence threats, form the basis of the international security order. Experts have long understood that leaders looking to secure allies face a critical tradeoff between strengthening their prospective ally to deter...
Author
Series
Legal aspects of international organization volume Volume 61
Publisher
Brill Nijhoff
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945. This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that period. It explains how ISS evolved from an initial concern with the strategic consequences of superpower rivalry and nuclear weapons, to its current diversity in which environmental, economic, human and other securities sit alongside military security, and in which approaches...